I want to thank both of you. One of sharing knowledge and the other for questioning it.
To answer the Darker's questions. Is energy raising through the method prescribed by Returner, just imagination?
In my opinion, no it is not. And...lol...definately not a one way ticket to error and dilusion.(Btw love the way you word your thoughts, Darker. You should consider writing as a career option)
Read up on yoga. Look up pranayama and the science of breathing. Oxygen is the very essence of life. You can live without water, food, sunlight and a sense of humour for a couple of days (Anyone seen 127 hours yet?). But without oxygen you're gone in a matter of minutes.
The method prescribed by Returner is using this very essence of life to energise your body and soul. There's a reason why breathing techniques have been been practised for centuries and sometimes even prescribed by doctors.
Give it a shot Darker, you have nothing to lose. It's just breathing...LOL!
I don't think it is my imagination that causes me to feel energy moving around my body.
When you take a deep breath in and focus on the breath filling the chest and the movement of the air you can feel the energy in your body. Your heart will beat moving the blood in you body around through your veins which you can feel if you focus on it. The blood carries with it energy in the form or oxygen and nutrients. This is science and not anyone's imagination. Bing able to feel the energy flowing through your body is due to being connected to your body. This connection can be strong if you let it be or weak.
If you choose to have a strong connection between your body and mind you will be able to feel the energy within your body and will also be able to concentrate it. The use of visualization is a tool to help one learn to feel the connection.
well said kts , i totally agree with returner's view, but darker actually had me thinking and in one angle of it he is right but yet still as was mentioned about the pranayama breathing technique. But i will like to add that oxygen is just the physical part of it , prana - life force energy part of this oxygen composition, when you inhale this energy is intaked into the and redirected by the chakras and modified for specific purposes. Visualization even though its the use of the mind, its not just mental. Its giving conscious instructions into the spiritual body as in what to do so hence when you focus to make a psi ball and you visualize you can physically feel the energy like raw magnets. This of course is not make believe (not saying darker inteded that) but its simply directing of the energy body the same way you use the brain to direct the parts of your body in movement.
i do understand darker's view and hopefully im not misinterperating him but i must say this all is up to the reader, cause surely anyone can read this on a very superficial level , visualize this in their heads and do nothing to the spiritual body. Its all up to reader's level of understanding, but now there is the element of the confused newbie now. After reading our comments some where along the lines a person is going to say i am confused everyone is saying all kinds of things i just want a straight answer.
To that confused person i say both darker's and returner's points are things to learn from, especially darker's note about it being in imagination. Do not just imagine this in your head without feeling it. You can to have the will power and the desire to feel this energy to feel anything at all this is what combines in your focus and causes you to succeed on such levels.
Remember just relax take it in small doses rome was not built in a day and to finish off my post returner you did an remarkable job once again, so much compiled in a summeray you never cease to amaze me.
